Opening Weekend

It was nice to get to play baseball this weekend. Galesburg came away with a split on Saturday. Normal West and Washington left this weekend at 2-0. The previously mentioned Streaks and Western Big Six teammate Moline finished Saturday at 1-1. While Rockford Guilford and Pekin played competitively, but finished 0-2. First things first...Moline suffered a scare as one of there coaches suffered a seizure as they were warming up for their first game. He was taken to the hospital and when I talked to a Moline player later in the day, I was told they believed it to be diabetes related. This player said that he was expected to stay under observation and be released the next day. Hopefully all is well with him. Makes one realize how trivial the game of baseball really is. My take on Saturday: Game 1: Tyler was dominant. Our bats did what they are supposed to against decent pitching. Defensively we were ok. Game 2: Two thoughts...runners left on base and 4 errors We found out that we are not invincible. And, I think that is good for us to learn. Washington made every routine play on defense, and a couple of really good plays (especially by their shortstop). And that, ultimately, is what the difference in this game boiled down to. I am happy that our guys got to see that. It is the most glaring area that we need to improve and if our guys are willing to put in the work to get better defensively, we will come out on top in the games like this in the future. I am confident that we will.